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Photonics in peril: How US funding cuts will set groundbreaking scientific research into long-term decline
Hannah Doyle
Laser photoreceptor targeting of the eye used to see new colour ‘olo’
Research team at Harvard SEAS
Harvard SEAS claim on-chip mid-infrared picosecond pulse generator first for gas sensing and spectroscopy
VTT medtech pilot line
VTT launches €3.4m pilot line for photonics-based non-invasive medical device tech
Alexander Weigl and Patrick Leisching
Trumpf, iThera, Avant and Ainnova advance VCSEL-based optoacoustic medical imaging and AI-based disease detection
Targeting precise drug activation with light
Cancer therapies and drug activation enhanced by global photonics research
InSpek Ivan-Lazar Bundalo
Q&A: “Raman-on-chip sensor technology can change the bioprocess monitoring game
SPIE Startup Challenge 2025 winner: Max-IR Labs Trey Daunis
Max-IR Labs wins 2025 SPIE Startup Challenge as startups celebrated at Photonics West
Coherent Photonics West
Coherent introduces the latest on emerging photonics trends at Photonics West
Clockwise from top left: Judith Su, Associate Professor, University of Arizona; Giuseppe Vicidomini, Principal Investigator, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Mithun Kuniyil Ajith Singh, Research and Business Development Manager, Cyberdyne; Igor Meglinski, Professor in Quantum Biophotonics and Biomedical Engineering, Aston University; Fabrizio Preda, CEO and Co-founder, Nireos; Miles Padgett, Royal Society Research Professor, University of Glasgow
Photonics West 2025: the life sciences and medicine talks on our wish list

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